Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.
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The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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In the night all cats are gray.
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Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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Fair and softly goes far.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
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Little said is soon amended.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.